Archer 2 offers a really good +150 crit rate, Archer 3 doesn’t really offer much aside from better kneeling shot. Since we got 10 circles to try and squeeze in everything, sometimes we can’t have both worlds and have to give up something for another better option…
Ranger’s Critical Shot is not a debuff but a buff to you that makes your critical attack +50% more. It is not additive but miltiplicative (based on my experience)
So yeah Ranger with atleast 1 circle now will be really strong for any archer builds I believe.
Edit: also you might be confusing swift step’s crit rate and rogue’s sneaky hit with Critical Shot’s buff. Based on my testing, say I hit a mob with Crit Shot skill (which will always crit anyway) with 80k damage, at 5 stacks my Critical Shot skill will skyrocket to 120k on crit. So take this consideration when you hit your biggest skills with high damage multipliers, then you crit while having 5 stacks of Critical Shot buff (again, it is not a debuff)